1805
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Stonehenge is a 1805 watercolor by Samuel Prout, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour painting shows a group of large stones standing upright in a field. The stones are different sizes and shapes, with some leaning against each other. In the background, there's a hazy sky with some clouds. The painting has a soft, dreamy quality to it, with gentle colours and subtle shading. The artist has used a range of browns and greys to capture the texture and tone of the stones and the surrounding landscape. If you like this painting, you might also want to explore the Romanticism movement, which celebrated the beauty of nature and the emotional power of art.
Samuel Prout’s watercolour of Stonehenge depicts the prehistoric stone circle in Wiltshire, executed during the artist’s early career in 1805. The work reflects Prout’s association with antiquarian John Britton, whose influence is evident in the careful, topographical approach to the subject. The drawing likely resulted from Prout’s visits to Wiltshire in 1805 or 1806, commissioned for Britton’s *Beauties of England*. Technical analysis of the underdrawing further supports its dating to this period of collaboration.
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Samuel Prout (; 17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting, who largely invented the genre of the grand steet scene in British…
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